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Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 06:58 AM Sep 2020

Don't Be a Sucker (1943)

This is for all the REAL suckers and losers out there. WTF is the matter with you? Your great grandpa watched this film. He knew what was going on.



I apologize if this has been posted before. I hadn't seen it, and I am stunned. I don't see MSNBC or CNN talking this way. The fucking ARMY made this, nearly 80 years ago.
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Don't Be a Sucker (1943) (Original Post) Dave Starsky Sep 2020 OP
I posted a clip JustGene Sep 2020 #1
Amazing, isn't it? Dave Starsky Sep 2020 #2
Yeah JustGene Sep 2020 #3
Those who do not learn from history.... Maeve Sep 2020 #4
K&R Progressive dog Sep 2020 #5
What gets me most about this film is it comes and out and SAYS... Dave Starsky Sep 2020 #7
Dick Lane, the guy on the soapbox, was a Roller Derby and Wrestling announcer in Los Angeles... hunter Sep 2020 #6

JustGene

(421 posts)
1. I posted a clip
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 07:34 AM
Sep 2020

Thanks for the whole thing.
This is what makes me so mad/sad
We know this story.
We don't need a remake.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
2. Amazing, isn't it?
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 08:25 AM
Sep 2020

It's like there's some sort of viral dementia that grips every generation. Like we've become completely incapable of ever learning a lesson.

JustGene

(421 posts)
3. Yeah
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 09:07 AM
Sep 2020

Maybe it's a societal flaw similar to an individual response to trauma.
Like forgetting pain or extreme abuse.
Or maybe I just think too much

Progressive dog

(6,861 posts)
5. K&R
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 09:22 AM
Sep 2020

It is hard to believe that in almost eighty years, we have forgotten how the despots gained power in democracies and then tried to conquer the world. It may be happening here. Trump and his cult are working hard at convincing us to fear all non whites.
MSNBC and CNN could show this very film and forty percent of Americans would still support Trump and the pro despot party that he leads.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
7. What gets me most about this film is it comes and out and SAYS...
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:41 PM
Sep 2020

That racism and xenophobia are established tools used by hucksters to fuck people over. With all the talk I see on the media about race issues in this country, I NEVER see that brought up.

You're right, though. Forty percent of this country would not only not believe it, but they think it's the sixty percent in this country that are suckers for being too liberal to see that Hillary Clinton is clearly operating a child sex trafficking ring out of a local family pizza restaurant.

hunter

(38,264 posts)
6. Dick Lane, the guy on the soapbox, was a Roller Derby and Wrestling announcer in Los Angeles...
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 10:39 AM
Sep 2020

... for KTLA-TV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Lane_%28announcer%29

He retired from full time television in 1972, and occasionally worked as a character actor after that.

I wish my grandma and her sister were still around telling Hollywood stories. They were USO volunteers in World War II. My grandfather was an Army Air Corp officer. My other grandma and grandpa worked in the shipyards building and repairing Liberty and Victory ships.

Is this the problem with human societies? Too many forget what fascism looks like.

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